The Voice of Diabetes

Aging And Diabetes Don’t Have To Go Together

The Voice of Diabetes welcomed Panayiotis Tsitouras, M.D., Associate Professor with the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine a the O.U. Health Sciences Center. We discussed the most recent research on hormone replacement therapy and how diabetes affects us as we age. Doctor Tsitouras has a long history of practice and research in the area of Gerontology including Mount Sinai and Johns Hopkins

Native American Children Battle Diabetes With Help From OCIC

Our guest this week was Diane Brown, M.S.,R.D.,L.D., Health Promotion Disease Prevention Director, Oklahoma City Indian Clinic. We talked about the high incidence of diabetes and pre-diabetes among Native American children. We learned almost 50% of the Native Americans seen at OCIC are obese or above normal body weight and many of the OCIC programs are targeting diet and exercise.

Diabetes And Autoimmune Diease – Are They Related?

Hal Scofield, M.D., Professor and Director of Fellowship Program, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center joined us to talk about autoimmune diseases and their relationship to diabetes. The question is whether Type 2 diabetes is linked to autoimmune disease and are persons with diabetes more prone to suffer from autoimmune diseases.

In Diabetes Feet Get The Attention

This week David Young, Certified Fitter of Orthotics, talked to us about the problems we have with our feet. It is easy to take them for granted but with amputations of toes and feet at epidemic levels, the wise move is to inspect your feet daily, wear the right shoes and keep blood sugars under control. Otherwise, you could develop serious foot problems in just a few days.

Three Things You Can Do To Beat Diabetes

Doctor Eliza Chakravarty of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation talked to us about her research which has tracked the health of a large group of people for 20 years. The results, published in the American Journal of Medicine, show 3 things you can do to avoid diabetes. These don't cost anything and, in some cases, will actually save money. The most important thing is to stop....